Stockman claims vindication on arrest record

Underdog U.S. Senate candidate Steve Stockman entered Tuesday’s Texas primary election suggesting that he “has grounds” to take legal action against the media or any anti-Stockman groups that have used expunged records of his 1977 arrest in Michigan for felony possession of Valium.

“A Michigan official has removed documents from a state website that erroneously claimed U.S. Congressman Steve Stockman had been convicted of a crime in the 1970s,” Ferguson wrote on the web site. “Michigan’s 43rd Judicial District Clerk stated Stockman was never convicted of any charge and the documents were supposed to have been destroyed in 1978. Another Michigan official has advised Stockman he has grounds to file criminal complaints against any person or media organization that published the documents.”

Stockman’s campaign has not identified the Michigan officials reportedly involved, but has claimed vindication in the face of media organizations and groups supporting incumbent U.S. Sen. John Cornyn that have made use of the records.